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1 The Grammar Matrix: Computational Syntax and Typology Scott Drellishak University of Washington MPI EVA,
2 Overview In this talk, I ll describe the Grammar Matrix, a project to develop a cross-linguistic foundation for computational syntax In particular, how we deal differently with (apparently) universal and non-universal but widespread phenomena First, a bit of background: what we mean by computational syntax
3 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
4 Computational Syntax Detailed description of a language, entirely formalized even a computer can do it In this project, formal system is HPSG (Pollard & Sag 1994, Sag et al. 2003) encoded in TDL format This allows our grammars to run in the freelyavailable LKB environment (Copestake 2002) This system can parse sentences to a semantic representation and also generate from that representation back to sentences
5 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
6 What is the Matrix? Purpose: Distilling the wisdom of existing broad coverage grammars into a common foundation for computational syntax Initially based on: English Resource Grammar (Flickinger 2000) A Japanese grammar (Siegel & Bender 2002) Since then, extended and generalized through exposure to projects implementing grammars for other languages
7 What s in the Matrix? Basic HPSG feature definitions and technical devices (e.g. list manipulation) Types that support a semantic representation, Minimal Recursion Semantics (Copestake et al. 2001) Classes of grammatical rules: derivational and inflectional, unary and binary phrase structure, head-initial and head-final, head-complement, head-specifier, head-subject, etc. Simple part-of-speech inventory: verb, noun, adjective, adverb, adposition, complementizer, determiner, numbername, conjunction Follows general HPSG principles, e.g. semantic compositionality, phrases generally identified by heads
8 Implementing a Grammar Particular languages implemented by multiple inheritance from the appropriate Matrix rules Example: SV word order A language-specific subj-head rule inherits from two Matrix rules: A basic-subj-head rule for the semantics A head-final rule that specifies the order (note: assumes V is the head of S)
9 Grammars Implemented Emily Bender regularly teaches a grammar engineering class Each student picks a language and implements a grammar for it based on the Matrix These languages include: Arabic, Akan, Armenian, Basque, Cantonese, Esperanto, Farsi, Finnish, French, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese, Latin, Mongolian, Navajo, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tigrinya, Turkish, and Uzbek.
10 Is the Matrix Universal? Intended to contain what s shared among all languages but not everything that s common is universal: not all languages have the same inventory of parts of speech coordination not in all languages What do we do with non-universal phenomena?
11 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
12 Libraries Our solution for phenomena that are in many, but not all languages Some of these phenomena simply don t occur in all languages (e.g. coordination) Others do, but the details of their expression differ (e.g. word order) Such phenomena are still necessary for a (possibly large) subset of grammar writers
13 Contents of a Library A Matrix library consists of three parts: HPSG rules implementing a phenomenon A web questionnaire that allows a grammar-writer to describe the phenomenon in the language in question Software that takes the answers and creates a grammar Libraries should be as general as possible to cover as wide a range of typological variation as possible
14 Current Libraries Word Order: SOV, SVO, VSO, OSV, OVS, VOS, V- final, V-initial, free Sentential Negation: inflection on main or aux verb; adverb modifying S, VP, or V; or both Coordination: lexical or morphological marking, different patterns of marking, different phrase types covered Yes/No Questions: subj-verb inversion (main, aux, or both), question particle, intonation only
15 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
16 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
17 My Research Implementing libraries for phenomena we currently lack Coordination (Drellishak & Bender 2005) first version done, second version planned Case (on nouns, for the time being) Agreement between verbs and their arguments (entails support for at least person and number as well)
18 Coordination Strategies vary in four dimensions: Kind of marking: lexical, morphological, none Pattern: one marked: A B and C (monosyndetic), n-1 marked: A and B and C (polysyndetic), n marked: and A and B and C ( omnisyndetic ), none marked: A B C (asyndetic) Position: before or after: and A or A and Types of phrases covered (Some known strategies aren t covered)
19 Case Currently, only case-marking adpositions supported (in the Lexicon section) For a fuller implementation, we need: How case can be marked (affixes, adpositions, ) What is marked (Only the noun? The whole noun phrase?) Arguments marking patterns (ergativity) A clean interface
20 Agreement Verbs agree with their arguments in various ways (e.g. person and number) To implement agreement, we need: What can agree? Which arguments agree? How does agreement interact with case (especially ergativity)? A clean interface
21 Dependencies Proposed Library Case Gender (and noun classes generally) Person and Number Pronouns Agreement Adpositional Phrases Verb Classes Argument Optionality Long-distance Dependencies Relative Clauses Content Questions Numeral Classifiers Evidentiality Noun Incorporation Known Dependencies (transitive) Case, Gender, P&N Case, Gender, P&N Case Verb Classes Pronouns Long-distance Dependencies Long-distance Dependencies P&N? Pronouns,?
22 Computational Syntax The Matrix Matrix Libraries Demo My Research The Matrix and Typology
23 Matrix Development Our immediate purpose is providing grammarwriters with a foundation Includes grammar engineers, linguists describing languages, language preservation efforts We provide a starter grammar, they continue in as much detail as they like The problems they encounter inform changes and improvements to the Matrix
24 Bottom-Up Typology This process gives us bottom-up, data-driven investigation of linguistic universals and constraints on cross-linguistic variation (Bender & Flickinger 2005) Formalizing grammars in a single framework exposes interesting similarities, differences, and issues: In coordination, n marks different from n-1, because only n-1 binary semantic relations are needed for n coordinands We hope to harvest typological insights during the process of developing the Matrix
25 Future Development The Matrix is applied linguistics practically, that means it s never complete and will contain compromises Over time, the core Matrix will grow (probably slowly) as new generalizations are found Universals found not to be universal will tend to migrate out of the Matrix into libraries
26 Big Picture Every research project has contributors and an intended audience e.g. the Matrix: we contribute an implementation, aimed at grammar writers With respect to typology, the Matrix is both At the moment, we re consumers of the research output of typologists In the longer term, we hope to contribute new knowledge to the field
27 References Bender, Emily M. and Dan Flickinger Rapid prototyping of scalable grammars: Towards modularity in extensions to a language-independent core. Proceedings of IJCNLP-05 (Posters/Demos), Jeju Island, Korea. Copestake, Ann, Dan Flickinger, Ivan A. Sag, and Carl Pollard Minimal Recursion Semantics: An introduction. Language and Computation, 1 (3): Copestake, Ann Implementing Typed Feature Structure Grammars. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Drellishak, Scott and Emily M. Bender A coordination module for a crosslinguistic grammar resource. In Proceedings of the HPSG05 Conference. Flickinger, Dan On building a more efficient grammar by exploiting types. Natural Language Engineering 6 (1) (Special issue on efficient processing with HPSG): Pollard, Carl and Ivan A. Sag Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Chicago, IL and Stanford, CA: U. of Chicago Press and CSLI. Sag, Ivan A., Thomas Wasow, and Emily M. Bender Syntactic Theory: A Formal Introduction. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. Siegel, Melanie and Emily M. Bender Efficient deep processing of Japanese. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Asian Language Resources and Standardization at 19th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Taipei, Taiwan.
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